September 3, 1999
U.S. Foreign Policy: What Do Americans Want?
Because the United States is a democracy, suppositions about majority public sentiments can have a significant impact on U.S. foreign policy. For example, Clinton Administration officials have explained that their assumption that the American public would react strongly to U.S. troop fatalities played a major role in the decisions to limit U.S. military action in Kosovo.
More broadly, many U.S. policy makers have expressed the view that the American public, in
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